Show Slayer of 2 ViI Women omen 11 Children Not Afraid t to Die lasts Jests of Murders PENITENTIARY II u n t s s v i ill 11 e Texas Feb 4 United Press The penitent feeling which usually grips the hearts of murderers was not manifest on th the face of George J. J Hassel In his death cell here today The rhe confessed slayer or of thirteen persons his two wives an and eleven cleven was children not entirely con con- nor was was' he re optimistic The thought or of his which Is set sel for Cor February 25 a few minutes after midnight does docs not terrify him lie regards It as a matter of course an an obligation to society he must pay Jie He wants ants to togo togo go to the chair to pay for his crimes Q it it of f the United Press Pres was all Wed e to vi visit the str stran n iest cst of all Texas killers in lets Death cell here today talked freely without sh w of emotion It was his only detailed account of the killing of his common law wife and their three foster children In Whittler Cat Cal ten years before lie he m murdered his wife and eight stepchildren last December near Farwell TexaS A vulgar jest where there might have been an expression or of remorse a smirk where there might have been R a tear he talked for two hours of his sale slaughters his pulses rather than motives for his crimes crimes his roustabout life that has blunted an any fine sensibilities he might have had Death holds no fears for this man who has dealt it to two women and eleven children JC If yoU see any spooks In there tell teU them Ill I'll soon be with them In farewell as the correspondent correspondent cor- cor respondent left to Inspect the electric alec elec- chair in a chamber adjoining In regard t to killing killing- of o hIs family on the west coast where he lived live with Mrs Marie Vogel he said he suddenly found himself choking her tine morning after t tl ey had joked and laughed for a couple of oC hours U If someone can tell me why I did it It I wish they would he remarked not as If bewildered but as if pleasantly pondering on the question ques- ques tion He said he then choked the three babies and buried them under the floor of the house before their bodies here vere cold Fear ot of arrest Troubled conscience conscience con con- science he scoffed at the I never gave either a thought hought To the amusement amusement J of condemned prisoners In adjoIning cells he described described de de- scribed obscenities with a housekeeper housekeeper house house- keeper in the ver very house that hid the grave of oC his murdered victims Two climaxes In warping his character he enumerated First his service or of two years in inthe In Inthe the Texas penitentiary when convicted con con- at 18 for embezzlement Second his from his first wife ICe for which h he blamed her het parents In both of his slayings s he he said investigators have erred In theorizIng theorizing Ing that the killings were premeditated ta ted Tho hole under his Call California Cornia home he said he h had d dug two weeks before eCole to please his wife as ashe ashe he called Mrs Vogel who had received received re- re spiritualistic visions of of oft ofa a treasure t burled buried there The Th pit or of his Texas ranch where nine bodies were bodies were found was d dug g two months before he declared to tobe tobe be used as a storm cellar It all seems like a dream to me menow now He ran strong fingers ugh his blond nail hair But I 1 know its it's not a dream that I am going through that door in a few Cew weeks m not afraid to tei die he said sal 1 lOr I ou d take a sea seat In there v no novas now as easily nos as sitting d down wn In a barber I IAre hail hah Are you malting making any minute last your life he was asked The court appointed a lawyer to represent represent- me and I dOnt dOn't know what he is doing if an anything He shrugged his massive shoulders in Indifference There is some talk hell he'll make an insanity plea but I tont dont think theres there's anything to it it I was never sl sick k In my life never had a serious injury and neither of my parents was as crazy He is still a brute of a man physically phys phys- if not mentally this mass mass murderer although his weight has dropped from Crom to since Im- Im |